The rapid growth of medical sciences and technologies created the need of increased use of computers to address the recognized problems associated with information overload, and to help health care professionals provide better quality decisions. / This thesis presents the development, implementation, and evaluation of a real-time expert monitoring system (EMS) developed for the patient data management system (PDMS) of a pediatric intensive care unit. The objective of the EMS is to generate real-time warning signals in the event of life threatening patient conditions. / The research in this thesis concentrated on the analysis of the performance of the expert system in the intensive care environment by monitoring several patients over a period of days. The results obtained were generally in agreement with the actual medical interpretations given by the health care professionals at the MCH. However, some false positive and false negative results were observed and these are discussed in the thesis.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.23859 |
| Date | January 1996 |
| Creators | Abu-Shihab, Osama |
| Contributors | Malowany, Alfred S. (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Engineering (Department of Electrical Engineering.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001499056, proquestno: MM12106, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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